{"id":44891,"date":"2025-02-19T22:50:51","date_gmt":"2025-02-20T03:50:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=44891"},"modified":"2025-02-19T22:50:51","modified_gmt":"2025-02-20T03:50:51","slug":"review-of-how-to-solve-your-own-murder-by-kristen-perrin-read-by-alexandra-dowling-and-jaye-jacobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=44891","title":{"rendered":"Review of How to Solve Your Own Murder, by Kristen Perrin, read by Alexandra Dowling and Jaye Jacobs"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>How to Solve Your Own Murder<\/em><\/p>\n

by Kristen Perrin
\nread by Alexandra Dowling and Jaye Jacobs<\/p>\n

Books on Tape, 2024. 10 hours, 52 minutes.
\nReview written February 13, 2025, from a library eaudiobook.
\nStarred Review
\n2025 Alex Award Winner<\/p>\n

The Alex Awards are given every year to ten books published for adults that will be of interest to teens. How to Solve Your Own Murder<\/em> is an excellent choice.<\/p>\n

This is a cozy murder mystery, complete with an English village and manor as the setting. Our main sleuth is 20-something Annie Adams, who recently graduated from college and then lost her job, so she’s moved back into her mother’s house and dreams of writing mystery novels.<\/p>\n

But one day a letter arrives from great-aunt Frances’s lawyer asking to meet with Annie because great-aunt Frances (whom Annie has never met) is changing her will. Well, when Annie shows up to the meeting, great-aunt Frances is late, but when they go to the manor to meet her there – they find her dead.<\/p>\n

But it turns out that Frances has been expecting to be murdered since she was a teen in 1965 and got a detailed fortune that said she would likely be murdered. The local police were sick and tired of the way she thought every indigestion was poison and every last name a type of bird an omen. She found a way to have her theories taken seriously. Annie and the other possible heir, a man named Saxton, are told that whichever one of them solves Frances’ murder will inherit her entire fortune and become a millionaire. If nobody solves the case within a week, the whole estate will get parceled off and sold to developers.<\/p>\n

Now, along with the present-day mystery and the high motivation that comes with it, there’s another mystery revealed in Frances’s old diary. In 1966, one year after getting her fateful fortune, her friend Emily disappeared, with her body never found. Annie has a feeling the two cases are linked. And meanwhile, someone’s leaving threatening notes on her pillow in her room at the manor.<\/p>\n

So the book has two threads going, one from the past taken from Frances’s diary, and another from the present, that comes with multimillion-dollar stakes and a dash of danger. Someone killed Frances, so if Annie gets too near the truth, they may come for her, too.<\/p>\n

It all adds up to a cozy mystery with a nice puzzle, fun characters, and plenty of suspense. I loved listening to this one.<\/p>\n

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Disclaimer: I am a professional librarian, but the views expressed are solely my own, and in no way represent the official views of my employer or of any committee or group of which I am part.<\/p>\n

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How to Solve Your Own Murder by Kristen Perrin read by Alexandra Dowling and Jaye Jacobs Books on Tape, 2024. 10 hours, 52 minutes. Review written February 13, 2025, from a library eaudiobook. Starred Review 2025 Alex Award Winner The Alex Awards are given every year to ten books published for adults that will be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,5,6,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audiobooks","category-fiction-review","category-mystery","category-starred-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44891"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44933,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44891\/revisions\/44933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}